Over the weekend, sci-fi author David Brin responded to comics artist Frank Miller’s dumb rant against Occupy Wall Street. Brin tears Miller apart by proving that one of his best-loved comics, 300, is founded on lies and a willfully ignorant reading of history. It’s titled “Move over, Frank Miller: or why the Occupy Wall Street kids are better than #$%! Spartans,” and you should read the whole thing—Brin schools Miller’s 300 on just about every single point, before it builds to its dramatic conclusion:
“300″ idolizes the same arrogant contempt for citizenship that eventually ruined classical Greece and Republican Rome, and that might bring the same fate to America.
It’s pretty awesome stuff. Also a must-read: highly underrated comics writer Ann Nocenti’s response to Miller, in which she sounds like an involved citizen of the world and not, oh, a housebound Fox News addict.
Miller would support the Occupy protests if all the women there were virgin/whore types with pouty lips, enormous breasts, daddy issues and mastery of some form of martial arts.
@Dmitrir – WHO WOULDN’T?!
Man, I woulda been an ‘occupy’ too.
hint hint reforming occupy.
Eww.
I wouldn’t say Nocenti is underrated as people who know who she is all seem to have a very high opinion of her writing. I was glad to hear that she’s coming back to comic book writing. I might have to start reading “Green Arrow”.
The typo in the first sentence of the linked response (“her career as a while”) made me cringe.